Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

Listen to the doc Premier Doug Ford. @globeandmail letter 20/04/2026

Can you ✍️? Toronto’s shelter system remains inadequate to meet the need. c.org/yk4M4tpgfX

And housing?

Ontario latest recs on #COVID vaccination. #onpoli #publichealth www.ontario.ca/files/2025-1...

Fire in Seaton House men’s #shelter in #Toronto One with serious injuries and 95 ppl displaced. No media release or statement from the city that I can find. #homelessness #urban @oliviachow.bsky.social

Pls sign. As the unregulated drug death crisis continues to run rampant, this decision will make our communities less safe, put pressures on emergency response services and lead to preventable deaths.＆nbsp;</div> share.nwmd.social/s/zuZkKyZM

Canadian COVID Forecast Mar 28 - Apr 10, 2026 CANADA HIGH [no change] About 1 of every 84 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 9.2 x higher -Long COVID: 6.6 x higher -Hospitalizations: 5.4 x higher -Deaths: 5.6 x higher

`Advocacy and Assistance @simonthelikeable.bsky.social @bobobubinsky.bsky.social @paulfrommableton.bsky.social @mhw12.bsky.social @margsang.bsky.social @lmso.bsky.social @lynnj889.bsky.social @healthcare-global.bsky.social @gentleone1.bsky.social @cathycrowe.bsky.social @terry-bolger.bsky.social

Avi Lewis Takes Over a Diminished NDP. Can He Make It a Force Again? open.substack.com/pub/thewalru...

🧵Yesterday we saw Ontario Premier Ford announce that “homes valued at up to $1.5 million would be eligible for a maximum of $130,000 in relief.” Toronto Star. Today we see this is a federal Liberal housing strategy to give money to provinces to improve supply. Supply for who?…2

“It's unclear whether Ford is drawing inspiration from Donald Trump or P.T. Barnum, but either way his strategy is simple: move quickly from one announcement to the next and generate a constant churn of controversy and confusion.”

Yes yes yes. Toronto will lose most proceadural gambits because the province is all powerful. They need to provide the vision to win hearts and minds. There is so little vision. The port lands had vision & why people were able to defeat Ford's mall deal there. Vision is how you fight, as I wrote...

declassified RCMP files confirm Canada's domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

BREAKING: Minnesota officials sue the Trump administration, accusing it of withholding evidence related to three shootings by federal officers.

#CanadianNews #BillyBishopAirport As Ontario's pro-American anti-Torontonians premier #DougFord brushes against PM @MarkJCarney for some of his charm onto his Trumpie Fat-Dirty-Skin, Torontonians call on #MEDIA question Toronto/Ontario MPs their take on Toronto's next destruction

Premier Ford makes announcement at Billy Bishop airport. Meanwhile tragedy in #newyork.

#CanadianNews #Environment - For decades, environmentalist David Suzuki has been a familiar face and voice in Canada — known for his rare ability to make complex scientific and environmental issues understandable. - via The Torontonian Magazine 🇨🇦 🍁 Toronto's Voice share.google/7zIT5ZRO11k3...

NO NEW POWERS OR WEAPONS FOR #Toronto TTC SPECIAL CONSTABLES! - Sign the Petition! c.org/R9mzyB6NMn via @CdnChange

🇨🇦Canada getting better at realizing it’s a northern climate country. Winter sculpture contest on a #Toronto beach. International and local participants. winterstations.com

#toronto closes warming centres. Revolving door #publicpolicy. When warming centres re-opened on March 12th - 32, then 119, 189, 233, 264 ppl came in on subsequent nights. Now shut, probably for good because spring is here and that = NO #righttoshelter

Great walk March 1 with TFN’s Clara. We saw scaup, goldeneyes, mute swans, a tree swallow and both ring-billed and herring gulls.

‼️toronto There are reliable reports of an individual found deceased, frozen near the 519 a few days ago. Of course outreach workers have heard about this through their contacts. Apparently an autopsy is being performed….2

Last night with #toronto warming surge sites open the number of ppl in the warming centres jumped from 244 to 301. This am @cityoftoronto closed the surge sites. 👎🥶

Pls sign. migrantrights.ca/actionslist/...

Dear Auston Mathews, Were you one of the lugs on TEAM USA who laughed at the Women's Team? We will know if you show up at the White House to kiss Trump's ring. If you do, don't bother coming back to Toronto. We like real sportsmen. Not MAGA Americans. Ask Gretzky for advice.

@progresstoronto.bsky.social @planningtoronto.bsky.social @torontorbot.bsky.social Etc.

👎 #toronto I actually think AI might do a better job than City Hall. My ‘Alexa’ just went ‘ding’ and sent me a weather warning. Winds gusting to 50K. Windchill -16C tonight. 🥶 Yet @cityoftoronto closed 3 surge #warmingcentres despite historic high use when they are open.

Marty Lang describing what it was like to build one of the John van Nostrand tiny ‘pilot’ homes >25 years ago #toronto. 2026 we’re still waiting to build.

From ‘Dying for a Home. Homeless Activists Speak Out’. Marty Lang describing the aftermath of the Tent City eviction. #toronto

No one is stick handling this at City Hall to make it work. #intentionalincompetence

28 years of neglect by all 3 levels of gov’t. In #ThunderBay @redcrosscanada.bsky.social waits for a phone call and city officials will write a report. Meanwhile shelter rights denied. People, disproportionately Indigenous, will continue to die.

Phew. ❄️ This is a welcome change of practice. Normally they would open 5 pm tomorrow and only if criteria met.

”The city of Toronto had contracts with OCS worth about $40 million through to the end of 2027." except it was not a real security company. torontostarreplica.pressreader.com/article/2815...

The sharpest column I’ve read in recent months in the Star on any subject. 👍

#Torontohenge today. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/scie...

My friend wrote this book and it’s just nuts that it seems to be out of print. 🇨🇦 #flagday www.hgdistribution.com/products/a-f...

Please, here is how you can help. Cathy

Finally, it happened. #toronto closes ALL remaining warming centres. 👎 Why? Because they consider it warm enough. City does not respect the right to shelter or the science of health impacts of #homelessness. @MayorOliviaChow @BravoDavenport PS ⚠️ windchill -19C + freezing drizzle risk

My take on this: “The city #toronto does not ensure adequate safe shelter year long so it should have taken greater care to protect the Better Living Centre as an emergency shelter venue instead of office space for the #FIFA circus.” #breadnotcircuses www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Why is Toronto’s provision of shelter weather based in the first place? Great interviews with @HavenTorontoCA @lorrainelamchop @c_shadowspaces www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

#FIFA trumps chronic emergency #homeless shelter need. #toronto 'Exhibition Place respite centre for homeless Torontonians to close before end of winter season due to FIFA World Cup booking.' Full Toronto Star scoop here: archive.ph/2Sq8U

Shelter chaos. Again.

#Toronto closes 3 ‘surge’ warming centres that shelter roughly 100 people because weather will ‘warm’ to above -15C. #righttoshelter Should not be temp based. @MayorOliviaChow @BravoDavenport

Trump’s behaviours of brutal, harmful actions and communications are escalating. He needs a psych assessment and should be impeached.

‼️ DougJohnson Hatlem is reporting this on X. “Toronto is closing Better Living Centre as makeshift homeless shelter (prev. reported) to set it up as HQ for FIFA for Toronto’s portion of the World Cup (prev unreported).” @mayoroliviachow.ca @alejandrabravo.bsky.social #breadnotcircuses

#Toronto An eighth warming centre opened last night at John Innes CC. 349 ppl were in these sites compared to 312 the night before. Proof it was needed. They were still over capacity at 101%. More effort is needed.

@shimonpro.bsky.social pls don’t use the word paranoid to describe Minnesotans fear. The use of the word doesn’t fit the definition of the local reality.

Breaking news. #toronto